{"id":5090,"date":"2012-06-06T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2023-04-29T08:43:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:43:46","slug":"tower-light-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/2012\/06\/tower-light-malfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower light malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were notified that the WFAS-AM tower lights were out, thus, it was time to investigate. This problem was easy to find. Upon removing the waterproof cover on the tower light flasher box, I found this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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melted SSAC B-KON tower light flasher, damaged by lightning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As soon as loosened the screws on the cover, I smelled the unmistakable odor of burned electronics and plastic.\u00a0\u00a0 I disconnected the flasher and covered the photocell, which turned the side markers on.\u00a0 Of course, the top flashing beacon was dark, therefore, it was time to report the outage to the FAA.\u00a0 The nationwide number to report tower light outages is (877) 487-6867.\u00a0 That number is for an automated system, however, eventually, it leads to a live person.\u00a0 Since the new reporting system was established, the only required information is the tower ASRN.\u00a0 From that information, the operator will access a database and have all the required information to issue a NOTAM.\u00a0 In the past, many questions were usually asked; what is the nearest airport, how far away is the airport, how tall is the obstruction, what is the position, etc?\u00a0 Therefore, things have become slightly easier than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the outage is reported and a NOTAM is issued, the tower owner generally has fifteen days to correct the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were notified that the WFAS-AM tower lights were out, thus, it was time to investigate. This problem was easy to find. Upon removing the waterproof cover on the tower light flasher box, I found this: As soon as loosened the screws on the cover, I smelled the unmistakable odor of burned electronics and plastic.\u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading Tower light malfunction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33,60],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-am-towers","tag-fm-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}